Practice With Science, Vol. 2
A Series of Agricultural Papers (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Practice With Science, Vol. 2: A Series of Agricultural Papers<br><br>In all ages, and in every country, the laws which regulate the succession to, and the distribution of, landed property, have had a most material effect in determining the agricultural condition of the soil. Land held in large masses by the actual possessors can never be managed in the same manner as small tracts. Thus where the circumstances are such as to render purely pastoral husbandry profitable or necessary, large areas are possessed by individuals. In Australia, for instance, and in the newest province, Queensland, leases are granted of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred square miles. While in certain districts of those colonies, and in all, as population increases, agriculture commences, and sections of eighty acres become the ordinary-sized farms of the tillage farmers. And although we may in our modem Australian colonies study the gradual development and progress of rural industry from the pastoral to the agricultural stage, according to natural economical laws, - for there men are free to deal with land according to the dictates of utility, - we must recollect, when applying such economical laws to our landed property at home, that a special and peculiar system, known as "the feudal," has greatly modified and fashioned the succession to, and the distribution of, land in England.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.